On the Structural Approach to Social Representations

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The Intersection of Conversation, Cognitions, and Campaigns: The Social Representation of Organ Donation (2009, background): “The most consistent caution has been to triangulate studies before proclaiming that the social representation of a phenomenon has been discovered (Abric, 2001; Castro, 2006; Gaskell, 2001; Joffe, 2003).”
Social representations of wine and culture: A comparison between France and New Zealand (2013, background): “In the same vein, a social representation must be viewed as a system of interpretation of reality that governs relations among individuals and groups in their physical and social environments and determines their behaviours and practices (Abric, 1993, 2001a; Rateau et al., 2011).”
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. (2003, background): “Ideologies, like other social representations, may be thought of as possessing a core and a periphery (Abric, 2001), and each may be fueled by separate motivational concerns.”
Methods for Studying the Structure of Social Representations: A Critical Review and Agenda for Future Research (2017, background): “Moreover, although there has been some evaluation of the SR theory (Hogg & Abrams, 1990; Potter & Litton, 1985) and the structural approach (Quenza, 2005), there is a surprising lack of works providing a critical appraisal of the methodologies, which are still frequently used.”